Back to the Stands

Finally got some sense of what kind of a loose 'area around' I want, both in terms of colour and texture (been scribbling with the oil pastels into a thin mix of Liquin (an oil medium, my all time most cherished) and paint.  Not finished yet, but enjoying having found what I was so fruitlessly looking for the last few months.  Hope is indeed that thing with feathers . . . (thanks ED)